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[large thumbnail url=”editorial-otter-huffs-and-puffs-again-about-wolves” filename=”editorial” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”15″] [thumbnail icon url=”editorial-otter-huffs-and-puffs-again-about-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”15″] Kevin Richert, writing on the IdahoStatesmen.com Web site, is not pro-wolf. It’s not really anti-wolf either, but its certainly interesting and it carefully, and with little deviation, targets Otter for his cynical strategy and Wyoming for being the root cause of […]

[large thumbnail url=”gray-wolf-bill-angers-wildlife-advocates” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”15″] [thumbnail icon url=”gray-wolf-bill-angers-wildlife-advocates” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”15″] The Utah Wildlife Board has taken a stand supporting federal legislation that would take the gray wolf population off the endangered species list, a move that angers some wildlife advocates.

[large thumbnail url=”governor-idaho-won’t-manage-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”20″] [thumbnail icon url=”governor-idaho-won’t-manage-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”20″] Almost two weeks after the deadline that Gov. Butch Otter set for a wolf management agreement, the governor is making good on his threat to withdraw state support for federal management efforts.

[large thumbnail url=”feds-investigate-killings-of-endangered-n-c-red-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”15″] [thumbnail icon url=”feds-investigate-killings-of-endangered-n-c-red-wolves” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”15″] For the second time in six months, federal authorities are investigating the suspected shooting death of a red wolf, a species that once teetered on the brink of extinction and now wages its fight for survival exclusively in eastern North Carolina’s […]

[large thumbnail url=”federal-officials-deny-montana-wolf-hunt-request” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”14″] [thumbnail icon url=”federal-officials-deny-montana-wolf-hunt-request” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”14″] Federal officials on Thursday denied Montana’s request to hunt gray wolves in response to increasing attacks on livestock and elk, leaving a settlement with environmentalists as the most immediate hope for the state to regain control over the endangered predators.

[large thumbnail url=”mission-wolf-makes-news-during-east-coast-road-trip” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”14″] [thumbnail icon url=”mission-wolf-makes-news-during-east-coast-road-trip” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”14″] Colorado’s own Mission: Wolf are on a road trip, and their most recent stop was Corning Community College in New York state.

[large thumbnail url=”oregon-adopts-updated-wolf-management-plan” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”06″] [thumbnail icon url=”oregon-adopts-updated-wolf-management-plan” filename=”news” year=”2010″ month=”10″ day=”06″] The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission met on Friday, October 1st and during that meeting adopted an updated wolf management plan which included minor changes which they said would make management more practical.